fyi - [TriLUG] IDE RAID

Mark Biggers biggers at utsl.com
Sat Jul 5 11:57:21 EDT 2003


Possible contact?  Just dug this up.

----mark

Jay Barrett writes:
 > Justin,
 > 
 > I have been using using an 3Ware Escalade 7500 IDE RAID
 > controller with RH 7.3 for the past 5 months with no issues.
 > My NAS is configured with as a 5 drive RAID 5 array with a hot 
 > spare.  I went with 3Ware's the 8 drive parallel ATA version but 
 > also they have 4 and 2 drive versions.  The card was easy to 
 > configure and has been painless since then.  I must warn you that 
 > routing the cables was a pain and I ended up using the round single
 > connection cables.  I really wanted to get the serial ATA version to
 > avoid the cabling issues and the potential of the cables to impact
 > the airflow and thus cause thermal problems which would lead to a
 > premature failure. At that time serial ATA drives were difficult to get 
 > and limited to 80GB, but the next one I buy will be serial ATA. 
 > 
 > By the way my decision to use the 3Ware card drove my choices
 > on Motherboards (Tyan dual Xeon) and drives (IBM 185GB) in order
 > to stay within their (3ware) compatibility matrix.  And the motherboard
 > drove the rack mount chassis decision, which could not be sourced
 > locally.  Anyways after a little detective work all came together
 > nicely and I would definitely buy another 3Ware controller. 
 > 
 > Small Print: My primary complaint about IDE RAID cards is that nobody
 > locally (RTP area) carries anything other than 2 port cards, but a few
 > will special order them for you, but that kind of defeats the purpose
 > in my mind.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Jay
 > 
 > Jay at Skyboxx.com
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf
 > Of Justin Johnson
 > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 3:38 PM
 > To: TriLUG
 > Subject: [TriLUG] Installing linux on IDE RAID
 > 
 > Any one here installed linux(RedHat) on a system with IDE raid? I have
 > asystem with a Promise Fastrax TX2000 controller and space available, so
 > I
 > was considering diving in and installing RH 9 on it. Any thing to watch
 > out
 > for, or is  it pretty straight forward. I know that ther are drivers
 > avaialble, off to get the most current one now.
 > 
 > TIA,
 > Justin
 > 



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